On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:40:06 +0100, Martin Brown
wrote:

A friend has a cotoneaster hedge which has fireblight. Its total demise
in the affected parts seems inevitable since it is opposite the gates of
a secondary school and miscreants hit the hedge with sticks on a daily
basis so the bruised bark is easily infected. I am not sure if anything

Do they bring their own sticks? If not, remove the source of the
sticks first.



except perhaps rosa rugosa and bramble can stand up to this abuse. Maybe
pyracantha would but I expect that would succumb to fireblight too. I
suspect to survive it has to be viciously spiny. Holly is probably too
slow growing so I am at a loss what to suggest. In an ideal world the
new hedge would grow to 2m high 0.3m thick and stop.

My question is what other suitably robust hedging material do people
think would survive in this sort of environment and hold its own without
either growing far too vigorously or losing to physical attack. Ideally
I would like to plant the replacement through the skeleton of the
existing dead parts of the hedge. If the low wall ever became accessible
to sit on things would be much much worse.

Incidentally when I was at school there were litter squads sent out to
tidy up after the icecream van, but in this location it appears that the

When I was at school litter picking was a punishment apart from one
day a year when the entire school tipped out with bags to collect all
the litter from the grounds. We weren't allowed out of school though
and for the most part people stuck to this.

The local authority will have a department who's job it is to pick
litter up and address the problems. I think these days it is tragic
but need to have mobile cctv vans to catch litter droppers and fine
them and then give them hours of picking litter up as a punishment.

Our council has a website you can post images of litter to
http://www.tidyoldham.co.uk

Local councillors may be interested in helping, but it's a long time
off the next election.


school flouts the local bylaws with gay abandon. There are notices on
lamp posts warning of fines for dumping litter but surrounded at the
base by knee high piles of curry trays, ice cream wrappers and alien
crisp packets. The mess then blows into surrounding gardens.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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